Review of the book: Bożena Zawadzka, The Attitude of Adolescents towards Their Health
Journal Title: Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences - Year 2008, Vol 17, Issue 42
Abstract
Aim: The aim of the research is to scrutinize healthy and chronically ill adolescents’ health behaviours with particular reference to individual and environmental determinants as well as to establish an empirical model of types of their health behaviours. The practical aim is to provide guidelines on how to enrich and modify activities concerning the teaching and educational process.Material i method: This work is an outcome of research conducted in the Świętokrzyskie province, Poland, among 1572 respondents aged 14–18. The research method was diagnostic probing and document analysis, whereas the HBSC questionnaire to probe health behaviours was applied as a tool. The group of respondents consisted of 33.3% chronically ill respondents and 66.6% healthy ones, out of whom 55% were from urban areas, and 45% from rural. There was a two-stage selection: random selection of the school and then intentional selection of the respondents, where their state of health was the criterion.Results: The qualitative and quantitative analysis, which made use of specific statistic methods (e.g. factor analysis), let the author establish the empirical model of types of adolescents’ health behaviours. The results revealed that 27.7% of adolescents show positive health behaviours in some areas (e.g. nutrition, physical activity), whereas 28.2% display health-risky behaviours. The analyzed variables such as sex, age, wealth, atmosphere and support at home diversify the research results at the level of p < 0,05; p < 0,01 as far as self-assessment of one’s health, physical activity, satisfaction with one’s own life, nutrition and health-risky behaviours are concerned.Conclusions: Health activity of both healthy and chronically ill pupils is insufficient. Adolescents, especially chronically ill pupils, cannot properly assess their state of health, The results of the authors’ own research as well as the analysis of other authors’ results led to the conclusion that there is a strong need to introduce a separate subject “health education” to school education at the level of secondary school and above.
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Bożena Matyjas
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